Made a custom keymap for my #twiddler Their tool is a bit janky but I got it juuuust how I want it. Next I need to practice doing actual coding. 🥳

Up to 15 words per minute on my #twiddler

Got a grip on numbers and some more special characters.

Getting to actually writing words with my #twiddler and I'm at like 12 WPM which is brutal 😭

Got to tge point in my #twiddler training where I'm starting to type actual words. Defs gotta make my fingers move in weirder ways than a regular two handed keyboard. 😅

Almost through practicing the alphabet on my #twiddler

Next will be typing actual words, and eventually all the special characters I need for coding.

Unexpected that I'm not finding any reviews of the #twiddler 4 online when I search. Has anyone actually used this thing?

https://youtu.be/wesICmc48UE

I used a genetic algorithm to find an efficient keyboard layout for my Twiddler, but I *never* thought about *other* chording keyboard choices

#twiddler #geneticAlgorithm #chords

I'm consistently hitting 30 words per minute on the #Twiddler keyboard according to keybr.com. That's less than 1/3rd of my normal typing speed, but that's OK - my normal keyboard does not fit in my pocket.

A different kind of #roaming with the #Twiddler. It's one of the most #cyberpunk things I own.

Word Search Puzzle 332

Word List : #nutpick #mulatta #tassies #twiddler #nighhand #haplomid #beeway #oppilate #lusatian #mias #average #aeried #kalumpit #antirent #cowardly #element #itemizer #thioamid

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-332/

Ça m'a l'air d'une très intéressante page listant les différentes personnalisations existantes pour le twiddler. Mais j'ai toujours pas compris comment lire les fiches diagrammes. http://ivanwfr.github.io/Twiddler3-Layout/ #twiddler #documentation #layout #opensource

Si vous cherchez à comprendre les différences entre les différents, layouts pour le twiddler. Ces cheat sheet sont pour vous. https://github.com/Griatch/twiddler-configs #twiddler #configuration #list

This week on my #podcast, I read #Twiddler, a recent Medium column in which I delve more deeply into #enshittification, and how it is a pathology of digital platforms, distinct from the rent-seeking of the analog world that preceded it:

https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/knob-jockeys/#bros-be-twiddlin

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@getflourish @wattenberger About twenty years ago, while I was having RSI problems, I got a speech recognition program (IBM ViaVoice) with a Java API, and hacked up a bridge program that I could spawn from #emacs, which would let me type by voice and run emacs commands by name.
It worked for me because I knew emacs well enough to know the command names behind the keystrokes. Maybe there's something you know that way?
I still had to use the keyboard occasionally, but if you've got one working hand, that might do.
Oh, or there's the #Twiddler, a chord keyboard with a mouse joystick that you can use with one hand.

I've wanted one of these for a long, long time. #twiddler

Small snippet of the performance 'Etudes pour le Livecoding a une Main": https://vimeo.com/311091365
#livecoding #iclc #twiddler #singlehanded